11-01-2000, 07:54 PM
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Junior Member
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Location: Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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It's about that temp where I am and the snow is softly falling. Here's the scene:
You're on a family ski trip. The car is crammed with your 3 kids, the dog, your spouse, mother-in-law, and all your gear. Six pair of skis are on the roof. By the time you reach Boulder, it's a blizzard. Through the headlights you see a figure by the highway with a sign that just says "Mother." As you get closer, you're looking hard through the snow...it can't be!! It's Gordon Lightfoot!!! It's 10 degrees and getting colder...
What do you do???
[This message has been edited by supaiblue (edited November 01, 2000).]
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11-01-2000, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Somewhere, USA
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It's about that temp where I am and the snow is softly falling. Here's the scene:
You're on a family ski trip. The car is crammed with your 3 kids, the dog, your spouse, mother-in-law, and all your gear. Six pair of skis are on the roof. By the time you reach Boulder, it's a blizzard. Through the headlights you see a figure by the highway with a sign that just says "Mother." As you get closer, you're looking hard through the snow...it can't be!! It's Gordon Lightfoot!!! It's 10 degrees and getting colder...
What do you do???
[This message has been edited by supaiblue (edited November 01, 2000).]
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11-01-2000, 10:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Detroit, USA
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Oh, that's easy . . . I'd strap my mother-in-law up on the car's roof along with the 6 pair of skis, and offer the great one a lift! What else?!?!?!?!
Mary Ann
ps: I guess it's a good thing that I don't have a mother-in-law, huh?
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11-01-2000, 10:44 PM
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Location: Atlanta, GA USA
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Oh, that's easy . . . I'd strap my mother-in-law up on the car's roof along with the 6 pair of skis, and offer the great one a lift! What else?!?!?!?!
Mary Ann
ps: I guess it's a good thing that I don't have a mother-in-law, huh?
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11-02-2000, 07:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: UK
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What'll you do? You stop and bring him
in! You make room somehow. What you dont do
is drive past him! It'll be a lot warmer
with Gord in the car. He sits up front with
the driver and entertains with a few songs,
while in the back wifey is gently running
her fingers thru his curls (oops - sorry -
wrong song), kids have stopped being monsters
so totally in awe of this magical being who
has entered their lives and ma-in-law cant
believe he has just turned and winked at her
while singing: ForLovin' Me'.
Well - something like that anyway. LOL
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11-02-2000, 08:25 PM
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I stop the car, let the freak show do their own thing in Boulder, and it's just me and Gord, hitchin' down the Hiway, and I don't care how cold it is...
(just kidding, honey...)
lol
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11-02-2000, 08:25 PM
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I stop the car, let the freak show do their own thing in Boulder, and it's just me and Gord, hitchin' down the Hiway, and I don't care how cold it is...
(just kidding, honey...)
lol
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11-02-2000, 09:12 PM
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OOOHHHHHHH HOW I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A SCENE LIKE THIS MY WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!
I leave the entire family on the side of the highway with the skis and luggage and point them in the direction of Boulder. I (and the dog) offer to drive Gord back to Canada on the condition that he sing every song he's ever written. The trip should take about 5 days. This could be a sequel to my Steven King movie "Misery."
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11-02-2000, 09:12 PM
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OOOHHHHHHH HOW I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A SCENE LIKE THIS MY WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!
I leave the entire family on the side of the highway with the skis and luggage and point them in the direction of Boulder. I (and the dog) offer to drive Gord back to Canada on the condition that he sing every song he's ever written. The trip should take about 5 days. This could be a sequel to my Steven King movie "Misery."
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11-03-2000, 09:28 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Kathy, maybe if you drive no faster than 45mph you could stretch it to a week!
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11-03-2000, 09:28 PM
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Member
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Location: Somewhere, USA
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Kathy, maybe if you drive no faster than 45mph you could stretch it to a week!
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11-17-2000, 06:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.
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You guys are kinda scary. Misery II? What about the rest of us? LOL.
And would you kidnap a poor boy who wanted to see his mom?
By the way, when I was hitching in north France in 1976 in the middle of the winter (below zero, but that was Celsius), I was standing by the highway with a sign that just said "S.V.P." The kind traveler who stopped thought the sign was quite amusing. He, of course, recognized me as American but stopped anyway because I had asked politely in French. My sign was inspired in part by "10 Degrees," a simple plea rather than a destination.
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"And the laughter came too easy for life to pass me by." - SDYS
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11-17-2000, 06:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Sherwood Forest, MD
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You guys are kinda scary. Misery II? What about the rest of us? LOL.
And would you kidnap a poor boy who wanted to see his mom?
By the way, when I was hitching in north France in 1976 in the middle of the winter (below zero, but that was Celsius), I was standing by the highway with a sign that just said "S.V.P." The kind traveler who stopped thought the sign was quite amusing. He, of course, recognized me as American but stopped anyway because I had asked politely in French. My sign was inspired in part by "10 Degrees," a simple plea rather than a destination.
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"And the laughter came too easy for life to pass me by." - SDYS
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